The Good Girl

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I'm sick of films like this being branded as comedies. I've already sat through 'Punch Drunk Love' and found it as funny as urinating down one's trouser leg at New Years....'Royal Tenanbaums'? More like 'Seeing someone being hit with a car is funnier' 'I Love Huckabees'? More like 'I love watching films where Americans act really neurotic about nothing in particular'. This one has Donnie Darko in it! Break out the tissues, because I'm gonna have to wipe my eyes dry with the mirth! My BROWN EYE that is...there are no funny parts to this film. You've got Jennifer Aniston as the unhappy Missus who goes off with Donnie Darko, and the subsequent shenanigans...none of which strike me as especially funny... Also the ending...redemption? understanding? How about 'I thought this was a romcom that would result in a shag, but didn't?' PISH

This may be a minor movie. It is set in a small town, it is a story about the tragical love between a married woman and a troubled younger man. All chances are for this to be another banal bitter comedy. However, directing and acting make it something else. The small town is just the close scene for really troubled characters, simple but real, fool but touching. Jennifer Alison (who I hear is the star of a TV comedy I take pride in having never seen even one episode) is a fine actress, and Jake Gyllenhaal is even better in the complex role of the troubled young man who things, acts, and writes like a Steinbeck character. This is the proof that the American indie cinema can make real good art movies, and that good movies do not need great money to reach true emotion levels. 8 out of 10 on my personal scale.

This movie was billed as comedy but there is nothing funny about it. I love Jennifer Aniston but this was the worst thing she has ever had her name on. I want my money back. This movie was predictable and extremely boring. I didn't fast forward because I thought I might miss a good part,there weren't any!!!!

GOOD INTERESTING STORY THAT IS FUN AND PRETTY EASY TO FOLLOW = 1 Star MEMORABLE DIALOGUE = 1 Star FEEL A PULL TO WATCH IT AGAIN = 1 Star MUSIC OR SCORE STANDS OUT = 1 Star NO NOTICEABLE PLOT HOLES = 1/2 Star STORY GETS RESOLVED OR FEELS COMPLETE IN SOME WAY = 1/2 Star I PERSONALLY LIKE OR FEEL A CONNECTION TO THIS STORY = 1 Star MEMORABLE OR LIKABLE CHARACTERS = 1 Star MOST THINGS ABOUT THE STORY COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN OR ARE BELIEVABLE = 1 Star STORY ISN'T BORING OR REPETITIVE = 0 Stars I really like this movie and the direction it takes. I love the emotion and sorrow that we feel as Justine (Aniston) digs herself deeper into an unforgivable hole. The ending makes sense the more you think about it and I feel like that made it a more memorable experience once I thought it through throughly. This is a great slower informative burner with an indie vibe that is clever af.

This attempt at black comedy or social satire falls on its face because of a really bad screenplay and some pretty bad acting and directing as well. The characters come off as cartoon figures, unrealistic and flat. I was greatly disappointed by the film and couldn't wait for it to end.

THE GOOD GIRL (2002) *** Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson, Zooey Deschanel, John Caroll Lynch, Deborah Rush, Mike White, John Doe. Aniston gives a heartfelt and subtly low-key performance as a thirtysomething married woman watching her life go by while working at a cosmetics counter in a small backwater town who finds herself in an unlikely affair with her younger co-worker (Gyllenhaal, a cottege industry of angst-filled adolescents). White's screenplay often blends well laughs and unease allowing Aniston's fed-up character to blossom albeit briefly; Deschanel is a stitch as another co-worker using the store's PA to full comic effect. (Dir: Miguel Arteta)

*CONTAIN'S SMALL SPOILERS* This movie is very good, but depressing in multiple parts. Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston) is a small town girl working at the retail rodeo. She is depressed by her life and her pot smoking husband, Phil (John C. Riley.) She notices a young man working in the store, who likes to be called Holden (Jake Gyllenhal) because of Holden in Catcher in the Rye. She ends up having an affair with Holden, sneaking around, and eventually getting pregnant. This is very well written and Jennifer Aniston does a wonderful job of portraying a character so different from her role of Rachel on Friends. I suppose I am favoring her in a way, because I think she is the greatest, but it is really a great movie, even though it is depressing in many areas.

*spoilers* Talk about realism. This movie will make you think twice about having an affair. I was totally enthralled in this movie. Temptation, contemplation, resignation, sin. Sin=death. It was pretty heavy and painfully real. Although, I can't speak from experience, this portrayal of infidelity will shake you up if being unfaithful had crossed your mind. Think twice. Every actor does a great job. Especially, the young actor opposite Anniston. Wow. What a great dramatic actor. Jennifer A. stretches her wings and takes risks. You see a vulnerability in her that you only see traces of on FRIENDS. I hope she seeks out more roles that allow her to grow. She has more to her than just a sharp wit. 8/10